Catherine Woulfe is the editor of The Spinoff Books and 1972 Magazine. She is an award-winning news and features journalist, and longtime books obsessive. She welcomes pitches of essays or reviews at catherinewoulfe@thespinoff.co.nz
Thank goodness for Wendyl Nissen and her chooks.
On the release of a new Hunger Games novel, we look back and marvel.
Play along at home during the virtual awards ceremony tonight.
We ask a clinical psychologist why our attention spans are so completely shot to pieces – and how to fix it.
All I can do, now, is wrap him up in love and trust that the people who are looking after him are wrapping him up in love, too.
Ladies and gentlemen we have a horse race. Books editor Catherine Woulfe offers up some odds.
I had planned to write an unabashed rave review, and then another book landed in my letterbox – and I just couldn't read those stories in isolation from my own experience.
Here are the 40 books that made it, followed by some frank thoughts from our books editor.
Three Women is a fervent, scrupulous qualitative review of female desire. It’s also a lesson in commitment – and the powerful act of paying attention.
The loss of innocence, the revitalisation of te reo, the rising up of women and of LGBTQ rights – the decade has been a ride. Here are our pick of …
Arriving in bookstores now, New Zealand Nature Heroes is optimistic and surprising and all kinds of wonderful.
Books editor Catherine Woulfe on the much-anticipated first thriller by New Zealander and New York Times bestseller, Nalini Singh.
'I could’ve drawn a big penis on it, you know, but that’s really unoriginal.'
Books editor Catherine Woulfe follows Wellington author Lawrence Patchett into his extraordinary story of heat and water and history repeating.
Catherine Woulfe welcomes the daughter she fought for.
On the eve of the announcement of the winner of the 2019 Booker prize, books editor Catherine Woulfe outs herself as a giant know-nothing.
They might be on the pricier side but books editor Catherine Woulfe is feeling much better using startup Little & Brave's compostable nappies to deal with her daughter's epic poos.
Gabrielle Jackson is a Sydney-based Guardian journalist who has written a book about her pain, and the pain of women, and the ways in which the medical system is making it worse.
Loved Linda Burgess's essays for The Spinoff? Now she's written a whole book of 'em. And it is, predictably, terrific.
Announcing the winners of the 2019 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young People.
What’s the best way to get adults reading? Get them reading when they’re children – and there’s no better place to start than the Unity Children’s Bestseller Chart.
We've scored four ART-TASTIC spreads guaranteed to keep the kids occupied these holidays, just download and print them out!
Three Women is a fervent, scrupulous qualitative review of female desire. It’s also a lesson in commitment – and the powerful act of paying attention.
New Zealand writer Sherryl Jordan's elated, transcendent novel for young adults, Winter of Fire, was first released in 1992. A quarter-century later fans' pestering has paid off and it's back in bookstores. This makes Catherine Woulfe very happy.
Let us rejoice in the line-up for best picture book at the 2019 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Unity and The Spinoff are very proud to announce the arrival of this new monthly feature. Because we love kids, and we love books, and we’re really sick of buying shitty books by mistake and having to read them 87,000 bedtimes in a row.
